May 15, 2016

Whit Griffin, Timmy Straw & Shannon Tharp

Shannon Tharp is the author of The Cost of Walking (Skysill Press, 2011) and Vertigo in Spring (The Cultural Society, 2013). Her poems and essays have recently appeared in ATTN:, EcoTheo Review, Typo, and The Volta. With Sommer Browning she is the co-editor of Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship, forthcoming from Library Juice Press in early 2017. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming.

Timmy Straw is a writer, composer and pianist from Oregon. Editions Plane published her first chapbook, To Water, Everything is a Swimmer, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Spork, Weekday, & Tin House. Her first album, State Parks, evidences her interest in lyric poetry, religious cadence, folk song, and minimalist piano, and she's currently working on a second. She also studies Russian at Reed College.

Whit Griffin has two books on Skysill Press and two on Cultural Society, most recently We Who Saw Everything (2015). Over the years he's had work in many journals, including The Chicago Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, Hambone and The Recluse. He studied poetry a Bennington and Brooklyn College, but his real education came working for Jonathan Williams' Jargon Society. A native of Memphis, he now shares a home in Wyoming with Shannon Tharp.

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PARATAXIS

To write again having not for a while,the clauses connected loosely, looping,a nick of ink on the back of my hand.